Basilica of Saint Paul Outside the Walls

The Papal Basilica of Saint Paul Outside the Walls (Italian: Basilica Papale di San Paolo fuori le Mura) is one of Rome's four major papal basilicas,^[a] along with the basilicas of Saint John in the Lateran, Saint Peter's, and Saint Mary Major, as well as one of the Seven Pilgrim Churches of Rome.

Basilica of Saint Paul
Outside the Walls

Piazzale San Paolo, Rome

Italy

Catholic Church

Latin Church

Basilica of Saint Paul Outside the Walls

Papal major basilica

Paul the Apostle

AD 4th century

Saint Paul

Luigi Poletti (reconstruction)

Church

Neoclassical

AD 4th century

1840 (1840)

150 metres (490 ft)

80 metres (260 ft)

30 metres (98 ft)

73 metres (240 ft)

Rome

James Michael Harvey

Historic Centre of Rome, the Properties of the Holy See in that City Enjoying Extraterritorial Rights and San Paolo Fuori le Mura

Cultural

i, ii, iii, iv, vi

1980 (4th session)

Europe and North America

The Basilica is within Italian territory, but the Holy See owns the Basilica in a regime of extraterritoriality, with Italy recognizing its full ownership and conceding it "the immunity granted by international law to the headquarters of the diplomatic agents of foreign States".^[1]^[2]^[3]

James Michael Cardinal Harvey was named Archpriest of the basilica in 2012.

1796–1799 Giovanni Battista Gualengo

1799–1799

Giustino Nuzi

1800–1800

Giovanni B. Gualengo

1803–1806

Stefano Alessandri

1806–1810

Giuseppe Giustino di Costanzo

1810–1815

Stefano Alessandri

1815–1821

Francesco Cavalli

1821–1825

Adeodato Galeffi

1825–1831

Giovanni Francesco Zelli

1831–1838

Vincenzo Bini

1838–1844

Giovanni Francesco Zelli

1844–1850

Paolo Theodoli

1850–1853

Mariano Falcinelli-Antoniacci

1853–1858

Simplicio Pappalettere

1858–1867 ^[24]

Angelo Pescetelli

1867–1895

Leopoldo Zelli Jacobuzi

1895–1904

Bonifacio Oslaender

1904–1918

Giovanni del Papa

1918–1929

Alfredo Ildefonso Schuster

1929–1955

Ildebrando Vannucci

1955–1964

Cesario D'Amato

1964–1973

Giovanni Battista Franzoni

1973–1980 Position empty

1980–1988

Giuseppe Nardin

1988–1996

Luca Collino

1996–1997 Position empty

1997–2005

Paolo Lunardon

2005–2015 Edmund Power

2015–2020 Roberto Dotta

2020–present vacant; overseen by an appointed Papal Administrator, Arrigo Miglio

The complex includes an ancient Benedictine Abbey, restored by Odo of Cluny in 936.

(31 May 2005 – 3 July 2009)

Andrea Cardinal Cordero Lanza di Montezemolo

(3 July 2009 – 23 November 2012)

Francesco Cardinal Monterisi

(23 November 2012 – present)

James Michael Cardinal Harvey

Thibaud of Ostia

Felix III

John XIII

John XVIII

Saint Paul Outside the Walls

Interior of the church

Apse mosaic (1220). Christ flanked by the Apostles Peter, Paul, and Andrew and Saint Luke

Detail of the apse mosaic: Pope Honorius III, who commissioned it.

Bible of San Paolo fuori le Mura

first wall around Vatican City

Leonine Wall

List of Greco-Roman roofs

Nicola Camerlenghi, St. Paul's Outside the Walls: A Roman Basilica from Antiquity to the Modern Era (Cambridge University Press, 2018).

ed., Age of spirituality: late antique and early Christian art, third to seventh century, no. 439–440, 1979, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, ISBN 978-0870991790

Weitzmann, Kurt

Hinze-Bohlen, Brigitte. Kunst & Architektur-ROM. Cologne: Könemann.

Rendina, Claudio (2000). Enciclopedia di Roma. Newton & Compton. pp. 867–868.

Marina Docci, San Paolo fuori le mura: Dalle origini alla basilica delle origini (Roma: Gangemi Editore 2006).

official site.

The Papal Basilica St Paul Outside-the-Walls

St. Paul's Outside the Walls: A Virtual Basilica

Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). . Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company.

"St. Paul-without-the-Walls"

including a photograph of a side of the sarcophagus.

St. Paul's Tomb Unearthed in Rome on National Geographic News

The tombs of the apostles: Saint Paul

of St. Anne's forearm venerated in a side chapel

Reliquary

- A self-directed virtual tour of St. Paul Outside the Walls and other Roman churches

"Beggar's Rome"

Media related to Basilica di San Paolo Fuori le Mura at Wikimedia Commons

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